PLAYLIST UPDATE (FEBRUARY 1 - 7, 2020) FOR THE FORUM GATEWAY ON FACEBOOK
(14 new postings):
For quick access to the Forum’s featured English grammar refreshers and general interest stories, simply click their indicated web links below:
1. You Asked Me This Question: “Back to the perfect infinitive using modals” (February 6, 2020)
2. Advice and Dissent Retrospective: “The need to teach our children to think logically” (February 5, 2020)
3. Time Out From English Grammar: “U.S. math professor stumbles on ancient Babylonian trick to simplify solving quadratic equations” (February 5, 2020)
4. Getting to Know English: "Options for avoiding officious subjunctive sentences" (February 6, 2020)
5. When What’s Meant Isn’t Exactly What’s Said: “The Nature of True Idioms” (February 5, 2020)
6. Time Out From English Grammar Retrospective: “The real wonder is that humans ever discovered science at all” (February 4, 2020)
7. Readings in Language: “Michel Montaigne as influential contemporary writer for all time” (February 3, 2020)
8. Getting To Know English Retrospective: “Learning the English idioms” (February 3, 2020)
9. Readings in Language: “A masterful guide to the craft of modern nonfiction writing” (February 3, 2020)
10. Language Humor at its Finest: “35 zany quotes and sayings” (February 3, 2020)
11. Time Out From English Grammar Retrospective: “Cordial invitation to discover the hidden majesty of mathematics” (February 2, 2020)
12. Forum Lounge Retrospective: “Pre-Valentine’s Day Quiz for incurable English-speaking romantics” (February 2, 2020)
13. Essays by Jose Carillo Retrospective: “Waltzing on the Web” (February 1, 2020)
14. Language Humor At Its Finest Retrospective: “A delightful hodgepodge of ‘sniglets’” (January 31, 2020)
CLASSIC FORUM POSTINGS (10 postings):
1. Advice and Dissent: “Belief without evidence to support it is always morally wrong” (Originally posted November 10, 2018)
2. Meditation on Our Digitized World: “The Tree of Life”[/size] (Originally posted June 19, 2009)
3. Two magnificent performances of “The Prayer,” spaced 10 years apart (Originally posted January 22, 2017)
4. “The Lovely Clichés Worth Keeping” (Originally posted circa 2002 Reposted December 16, 2016)
5. Conversations (4): “The real score about Valentine’s Day” (Originally posted February 10, 2010 Reposted February 1, 2014)
6. “Did Rizal ever speak and write in English?” (Originally posted January 28, 2010, latest update December 30, 2016)
7. “Conversations (2): A serious bad-grammar syndrome” (Reposted January 18, 2017)
8. “Anatomy of media stories that Filipina women have the world’s smallest breasts” (Posted July 11, 2016)
9. “Lost in Translation” - 1 and 2 (Posted December 30, 2016)
10. “Indignities in American minor” (Posted October 27, 2016)
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